Lost

Chapter 2

It's the second week of school and today is the water polo meeting. I had been going to conditioning over summer and I am really not looking forward to this season, last year my coaches and teammates were horribly rude to me. I hate being on the team and the only reason why I do it is so that I look good for college. There were days when I would go home and cry because I wasn't good enough for the team, I was the only Mexican out of 12 girls everyone else was your typical Ugg boot, Starbucks, yoga pants, iphone white girls. I feel so out of place there.

"girls sit down and be quiet!" everyone immediately sits up straight and shuts up. In comes the head coach, she is one of the most bitter people I know. The only thing that makes her smile are her dogs. She treats her players like property, she yells at us like we're peasants and makes us cry like not even your long term boyfriend will when he brakes up with you.

The meeting ends and only the freshmen are excited for the season, they're intimidated by the coach but excited. The rest of us returnees know there is nothing fun to this program and we are not ready for hell to begin.

*1 month later*

I am so sick and tired of water polo! I want to quit so badly but I am not a quitter so I will have to put up with it, it's September and season ends early November. Everyone on my team including my coach are extremely racist to me, they make racial jokes about me all the time. The girls have nicknamed me "Quesadilla" and they have me do everything "because I'm Mexican" Never have I felt so disrespected before. Being on this team is making me feel depressed all the time, I never smile. I'm not sure if the outside world has noticed this but I feel like I always look sad, this isn't me and I don't like this new me!

Homecoming week is next week meaning we will finally get a day off! I love spirit weeks and Homecoming week is the week to go all out! I already have my red tutu ready, my red and gold socks, and my class shirt is decorated, I even found this gold sequins bow! I got my homecoming dress for 12 bucks at Sally's, I love bargains! I live for them! For shoes.. Well I'm just wearing sandals, I don't like the way flats look on me and heels are just no. I can walk in heels but they make my feet hurt so much! I wish I could help build the parade float so I could ride on the back of it during the parade but thanks to water polo I wont be able to do that, I'll just have to watch. I can not express how much I hate my team!

It's homecoming week and there's all the "date to homecoming" all over twitter. I obviously don't have a date. I mean I don't consider myself ugly but I'm not the type to turn heads as I walk through the door. I'm also very shy when it comes to guys so obviously don't have many guy friends. I have a few friends that graduated with my brother last year; Eddy, Zayn, Louis, Niall, and Cesar but they obviously graduated so they're not going to homecoming. I honestly don't mind going without a date but it would be nice to know someone would like me to be their date.

Friday is finally here! The big homecoming game and parade are today and I can not wait for school to be over. My friends and I are all dressed with spirit. The football coach gave an inspiring speech today at lunch and you will hear the Lions roar tonight!

As we head out downtown for the parade we stop at El Paso, a Mexican food place. We're only getting some water for the walk but there is a huge line! El Paso is one of the closest most decent food places near the school so literally the whole school is here right now!

"Oh my god. ew." I look up to see Cassie's disgusted face.

"What?" I ask looking more confused than when Patricia called my name in the hall way the first day of school.

"There's so many people I don't like let's go" She looks extremely annoyed so we decide to skip on the water and go find a spot on the sidewalk.

we stand in front of the cinema waiting for the floats to pass by. Bella has face paint so as we wait we begin to draw paws and 14's on our faces.

"can you draw a red heart and then put a yellow fourteen inside of it?" Bella asks sweetly as she hands me the paint.

"Yeah sure! I'll try not to mess up, if I do I'm really sorry!" Bella looks at me nervously as I begin to paint on her face. I wouldn't mess up on purpose but I don't know why my hands are constantly shaking and I just can't control it. Just as I'm beginning to paint all over her face-

"Wait!" Bella looks up behind me and I'm a little confused

"Look-"

"shhhh!!" someone behind me commands as she begins to speak. I immediately recognize the voice and smell and I turn around as fast as I can.

"Zayn!" He throws his arms around me and I squeeze him back. Zayn has always been a great hugger, he is extremely skinny but he will give you that perfect squeeze and he always smell good!

"What are you doing here?" He questions me.

"Um well you know I kinda go to this school so umm yea.. wouldn't it be what are YOU doing here, you already graduated get a life!" Even though these guys already graduated they will not stop coming back to our school.

"Stop. You're hurting my feelings." He says playfully. "look!" he points across the street. Eddy, Cesar, Louis ,and Niall are all standing right across the street. There's some really tall guy with them, I don't think I've ever seen him before? He's pretty attractive, tall, curly brown hair, colored eyes, and the thing that gets me the most, dimples!

"oh hey guys!" I shout across the street to my friends.

"who is that?" I ask Zayn trying to not sound desperate.

"who? Harry?"

"I don't know? The tall guy with you guys."

"oh yeah that's Harry." Zayn looks at me knowing what I'm thinking.

"You like him huh?" he winks and nudges my arm.

"what? no?" I face my back to him and begin to paint Bella's face. I do this to hide my smile. Bella looks at me and smiles back, I can feel my face turning red.

"Brenda" Zayn says my name in a sing song way. Before I can say stop the guys are walking towards us, fuck my life!

"Hey Brenda" Eddy says as he hugs me, followed by the others. it all stops once it gets to Harry.

"Hey guys! You guys really just can't leave this school huh, you always have to be around!" I look at Zayn mainly.

Zayn has history with junior here. Everyone thinks he still likes her but he wont admit it to himself so there's not much to do about it. Personally I don't like the girl, she's smaller than me but she honestly scares me. Since before her and Zayn were dating she always seemed a bit jealous of my sister and I we never understood why because she was only his friend as well.. turns out she had the biggest crush on him! We call her the demon child because she gives us the scariest look, like I think my life may be in danger! Eddy is dating her best friend so I think that's why these two are so attached to the school.

"No we love this school!" Cesar answers for all of them.

"Yeah this school is great!" Harry shocks me when he replies. I'm so caught off guard I probably look like a retard looking at him right now.

"wait, you went here?" I finally manage to say after what feels like ten minutes of an awkward silence.